| Born: February 26, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois |
| First Publication: |
The Trouble with the Past (with Alex Eisenstein), New Dimensions 1, |
| (ed. Robert Silverberg), Doubleday, 1971 |
| First Solo Publication: |
Born to Exile (novellette), The Magazine of Fantasy |
| and Science Fiction, August 1971 |
| First Novel: | Born to Exile, Arkham House, 1978 |
| Balrog Award: |
Born to Exile, Best Fantasy 1978 |
| Phyllis also won the Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Award for best novella in 1981 for In The Western Tradition, which was also nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards. |
| Currently, Phyllis teaches science fiction writing at Columbia College in Chicago and is about to launch a magazine, financed by the college. the will showcase student science fiction. Her next two writing projects are a non-=fiction book on arthritis and a science fiction novel set in the Sahara Desert -- which explains the maps on her wall! |
| "If only there were more hours in the day and I could stay awake for them!" |
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